The bright spot in the West Carpathian upper mantle: A trace of the Tertiary plate collision - and a caveat for a seismologist

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Abstract

The 2-D full waveform modelling of the mantle arrivals from the CELEBRATION 2000 profiles crossing the Carpathian orogen suggests two possible tectonic models for the collision of ALCAPA (Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian) and the European Plate in the West Carpathians in southern Poland and Slovakia. Due to an oblique (NE-SW) convergence of plates, the character of the collision may change along the zone of contact of the plates: in the western part of the area an earlier collision might have caused substantial crustal shortening and formation of a crocodile-type structure, with the delaminated lower crust of ∼100 km length acting as a north-dipping reflecting discontinuity in the uppermost mantle. In the eastern part, a less advanced collision only involved the verticalization of the subducted slab remnant after a slab break-off. The lower crustal remnant of ∼10 km size in the uppermost mantle acts as a pseudo-diffractor generating observable mantle arrivals. Due to the similarity of synthetic data generated by both models, the question of the non-uniqueness of seismic data interpretation, that may lead to disparate tectonic inferences, is also discussed. © 2010 The Author Journal compilation © 2010 RAS.

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Środa, P. (2010). The bright spot in the West Carpathian upper mantle: A trace of the Tertiary plate collision - and a caveat for a seismologist. Geophysical Journal International, 182(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04595.x

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